Batmagnai Munkhnasan— a developer & interface designer drawing restrained software the way a brush draws breath. Currently building instruments for thought at Kōan Labs, previously at Stripe & Kyoto University HCI.
I design and build software the same way — one deliberate gesture at a time, trusting that negative space carries meaning. My favourite interfaces feel like a single breath: inevitable, quiet, and fully committed.
For ten years I've shipped tools at the intersection of typography, local-first data, and calm interaction. I care about latency under 16ms, about kerning at 11pt, about the sound a confirmation makes, about what happens when the network goes out.
Currently based in Tokyo. Available for a small number of collaborations in 2026 — studios, teams of one, or quiet founders.
Why I think most tools would improve by being deliberately a fraction slower, and what pacing has to do with honesty.
Read the piece →Field notes from a year of trying to make a collaborative editor that respects vertical text, furigana, and composed input.
Read the piece →A talk for Config about the strange compounding returns of teams that choose to stay small on purpose.
Watch the talk →